We have done what we can to optimise the builds for the Raspberry Pi 2
and Raspberry Pi 3 but microSDHC I/O throughput is a bottleneck so we
highly recommend that you use a Class 6 or Class 10 microSDHC card.

Ubuntu Server Minimal 16.04

Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 (207MB)

Ubuntu Server Standard 16.04

Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 (329MB)

Lubuntu 16.04

Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 (602MB)

Xubuntu 16.04

Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 (666MB)

Ubuntu MATE 16.04

Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 (959MB)

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Making a microSDHC

The image can be burned to a DVD, mounted as an ISO file, or be directly
written to a USB stick using a utility like dd, but we prefer ddrescue
(from the gddrescue package, for example: